IUP’s director of student wellness and engagement has received a grant that will help educate graduate, veteran and military students on the dangers of alcohol abuse.
Ann Sesti announced that she received a $40,000 two-year grant from the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to develop and implement a program on alcohol education that would target those three student groups. Sesti will work with IUP’s Military and Veterans Resource center and the School of Graduate Studies and Research along with deans, department chairs and the IUP Graduate Student Assembly on the project.
The first part will be the development of a survey to all graduate students and veteran and military-affiliated students about their drinking patterns, risk factors, stress levels, coping mechanisms, and general knowledge about alcohol and its effects. Students who identify as high-risk or exhibiting dangerous behaviors in the survey will be given information on resources and people that can provide support. If they do not have high risk, but who still may be at a high risk, two online educational and informative tools will be offered, including Alcohol eCheckupToGo and Caring TXT.
Sesti will collaborate her efforts with the Open Door and the Armstrong-Indiana-Clarion Drug and Alcohol Commission for treatment resources and educational programming.
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